I will try and find the grave after the weekend, providing there is a head stone. Maybe in the mean time, write to the below address with as much detail as you can manage. Margate Main Cemetery Thanet District Council Manston Road Margate Kent CT9 4LY Good luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "P ROGERS" <kildavanan@btopenworld.com> To: <Isle-of-Thanet-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:42 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} ALLEN and BAILEY and AKEHURST > > Hello all > > My Great Aunt, Edith Ethel ALLEN, (b Margate 17 Jul 1879)married William > BAILEY in the September Quarter of 1912 according to the GRO BMD. However, > she later married an AKEHURST but I haven't yet found that marriage. I feel > sure that she was not a bigamist and that her first husband will have quite > possibly died in WWI. I have checked the CWGC index but, understandably, > there is a substantial number of W. BAILEYs in that list, and I have no > means of identifying her husband, if he is there. > > However, I believe that she had a burial plot at Margate Cemetery - an > exclusive right of burial, grant no.A 5020. To whom should I write (or > email) to find out who is in the grave? I think it may be identified by > the reference > > 6458 Class C Section XV11 Con. > > which is, I think, that of her sister, Flora Elizabeth ALLEN (who married a > STICKELS) and that it may also contain her sister, Francis Harriet ALLEN, > and possibly their father, John ALLEN and even their mother, Harriet ALLEN. > > If a photo of the gravestone is available I should be very grateful for a > copy. > > If any member of this list has an interest in the AKEHURST family and can > assist me to find my great aunt's (second) marriage, I should be delighted > to hear from > you. > > John ROGERS > (maternal Grandfather John William ALLEN, the above ladies' brother) > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 4/6/06 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 4/6/06